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Making Musical Magic Live
Making Musical Magic Live Inventing modern production technology for human-centric music performance Benjamin Arthur Philips Bloomberg Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012 Master of Sciences in Media Arts and Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014 Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 2020 © 2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All Rights Reserved. Signature of Author: Benjamin Arthur Philips Bloomberg Program in Media Arts and Sciences 17 January 2020 Certified by: Tod Machover Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media Thesis Supervisor, Program in Media Arts and Sciences Accepted by: Tod Machover Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences Making Musical Magic Live Inventing modern production technology for human-centric music performance Benjamin Arthur Philips Bloomberg Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, School of Architecture and Planning, on January 17 2020, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract Fifty-two years ago, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band redefined what it meant to make a record album. The Beatles revolution- ized the recording process using technology to achieve completely unprecedented sounds and arrangements. Until then, popular music recordings were simply faithful reproductions of a live performance. Over the past fifty years, recording and production techniques have advanced so far that another challenge has arisen: it is now very difficult for performing artists to give a live performance that has the same impact, complexity and nuance as a produced studio recording. -
The TV Is Smart and Full of Trackers Towards Understanding the Smart TV Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem
Janus Varmarken*, Hieu Le, Anastasia Shuba, Zubair Shafiq, and Athina Markopoulou The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers Towards Understanding the Smart TV Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem Abstract: Motivated by the growing popularity of smart 1 Introduction TVs, we present a large-scale measurement study of smart TVs by collecting and analyzing their network traffic from two Smart TV adoption has steadily grown over the last few years, different vantage points. First, we analyze aggregate network with more than 37% of US households with at least one smart traffic of smart TVs in-the-wild, collected from residential TV in 2018 which is a 16% increase over 2017 [1]. The growth gateways of tens of homes and several different smart TV plat- in smart TV is driven by two trends. First, over-the top (OTT) forms, including Apple, Samsung, Roku, and Chromecast. In video streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have be- addition to accessing video streaming and cloud services, we come quite popular, with more than 60 million and 28 million find that smart TVs frequently connect to well-known as well subscribers in the US, respectively [2]. Second, smart TV so- as platform-specific advertising and tracking services (ATS). lutions are available at relatively affordable prices, with many Second, we instrument Roku and Amazon Fire TV, two pop- of the external smart TV boxes/sticks priced less than $50 and ular smart TV platforms, by setting up a controlled testbed to built-in smart TVs priced on the order of hundreds of dollars systematically exercise the top-1000 apps on each platform, [3]. -
Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies ; 2020 (2):129–154 Janus Varmarken†*, Hieu Le†, Anastasia Shuba, Athina Markopoulou, and Zubair Shafq The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking Abstract: In this paper, we present a large-scale mea- 1 Introduction surement study of the smart TV advertising and track- ing ecosystem. First, we illuminate the network behav- Smart TV adoption has steadily grown over the last few ior of smart TVs as used in the wild by analyzing net- years, with more than 37% of US households owning at work traÿc collected from residential gateways. We fnd least one smart TV in 2018, a 16% increase over the that smart TVs connect to well-known and platform- previous year [1]. This growth is driven by two trends. specifc advertising and tracking services (ATSes). Sec- First, over-the top (OTT) video streaming services such ond, we design and implement software tools that sys- as Hulu and Netfix have become popular, with more tematically explore and collect traÿc from the top-1000 than 28 million and 60 million subscribers in the US, re- apps on two popular smart TV platforms, Roku and spectively [2]. Second, smart TV solutions are available Amazon Fire TV. We discover that a subset of apps at relatively a˙ordable prices, with many of the external communicate with a large number of ATSes, and that smart TV boxes/sticks priced less than $50, while built- some ATS organizations only appear on certain plat- in smart TVs now cost only a few hundreds dollars [3]. -
Αξιοποίηση Του Live Streaming Στην Εκπαίδευση.Pdf
ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ 2 ΛΑΖΑΡΟΠΟΤΛΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ (39189) ΦΙΚΑΡΗ ΔΗΜΗΣΡΙΟ (39131) ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ ΠΣΤΥΗΑΚΖ ΔΡΓΑΗΑ Αμηνπνίεζε ηνπ Live Streaming ζηελ Δθπαίδεπζεο Λαδαξόπνπινο Υαξάιακπνο Α.Μ. 39189 Φίθαξεο Γεκήηξηνο Α.Μ. 39131 Δηζεγεηήο: Γξ. Ησάλλεο Φαξνκήιηγθνο, Καζεγεηήο Δμεηαζηηθή Δπηηξνπή: Γξ. Γεώξγηνο Πξεδεξάθνο, Καζεγεηήο Γξ. Κσλζηαληίλνο Κνπθνπιέηζνο, Καζεγεηήο Ζκεξνκελία εμέηαζεο: 23/05/2017 3 ΛΑΖΑΡΟΠΟΤΛΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ (39189) ΦΙΚΑΡΗ ΔΗΜΗΣΡΙΟ (39131) ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ 4 ΛΑΖΑΡΟΠΟΤΛΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ (39189) ΦΙΚΑΡΗ ΔΗΜΗΣΡΙΟ (39131) ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ ΔΤΥΑΡΗΣΗΔ ην ζεκείν απηφ ζα ζέιακε λα επραξηζηήζνπκε ηνλ επηβιέπνληα θαζεγεηή ηεο πηπρηαθήο καο εξγαζίαο Γξ. Ησάλλε Φαξνκήιηγθν γηα ηελ θαζνδήγεζε, ηελ πξφζπκε ππνζηήξημε θαη ηελ πνιχηηκε βνήζεηα πνπ καο παξείρε θαζ‟ φιε ηε δηάξθεηα εθπφλεζεο ηεο εξγαζίαο. Δγθάξδηεο επραξηζηίεο ζηνπο θχξηνπο Ξαλζφπνπιν Θεφδσξν, Κνηζίδε Θεφθηιν θαη Κπηάγηα Υξήζην γηα ηηο πνιχηηκεο γλψζεηο ηνπο θαη ηελ άξηζηε ζπλεξγαζία ηνπο γηα ηελ πινπνίεζε ησλ ζελαξίσλ. 5 ΛΑΖΑΡΟΠΟΤΛΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ (39189) ΦΙΚΑΡΗ ΔΗΜΗΣΡΙΟ (39131) ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ 6 ΛΑΖΑΡΟΠΟΤΛΟ ΧΑΡΑΛΑΜΠΟ (39189) ΦΙΚΑΡΗ ΔΗΜΗΣΡΙΟ (39131) ΑΞΗΟΠΟΗΖΖ ΣΟΤ LIVE STREAMING ΣΖΝ ΔΚΠΑΗΓΔΤΖ Πεξίιεςε ηελ παξνχζα εξγαζία επηρεηξείηαη ε κειέηε ηερληθψλ αμηνπνίεζεο ηεο δσληαλήο αλακεηάδνζεο (live streaming) σο δηδαθηηθνχ κέζνπ ζε εθπαηδεπηηθά ζελάξηα δηδαζθαιίαο είηε απφ απφζηαζε είηε πβξηδηθά (ζπκπιεξσκαηηθά ηεο δηα-δψζεο δηδαζθαιίαο). Ζ εξγαζία ζα πεξηιακβάλεη δχν κέξε: ην α‟ κέξνο ζα γίλεη κηα επηζθφπεζε εξγαιείσλ θαη ηερληθψλ δσληαλήο αλακεηάδνζεο κε έκθαζε ηελ εθπαηδεπηηθή δηαδηθαζία θαη ηελ αμηνπνίεζή ηνπο ζηα αλνηθηά καζήκαηα πνπ πξφζθαηα αλέπηπμε ην Ίδξπκα. ην β' κέξνο ζα ζρεδηαζηνχλ, ζα πινπνηεζνχλ θαη ζα αμηνινγεζνχλ δνθηκαζηηθά εθπαηδεπηηθά ζελάξηα δσληαλήο αλακεηάδνζεο ζε επηιεγκέλα καζήκαηα ηνπ Ηδξχκαηνο.